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Oh, this is really bugging me...I'm almost certain that I've heard of this type of birth control. I remember reading about it, and one of the major consequences of this type of birth control is that the woman will no longer be capable of having babies. Once her immune system starts to think that a fertilized egg is a foreign object, it'll remember it as such. So it eliminates the fertilized egg each and every time.
Well, I've been known to be off my rocker every now and then. So there's a chance that I'm beginning to go insane.
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No offense, sweetie, but that sounds sort of science-fiction-esque.
Perhaps it was just a nightmare, or else an evil urban legend started by the fundamentalists.
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But either way, if fertilized eggs are given rights that a normal person would have, that definately question whether birth control is killing another human. For instance, if the egg is fertilized and then rejected out of the woman's body, is that called neglect abuse? Like in child abuse cases, where parents neglect thier child. Neglect is generally defined as not providing necessary support for your child, like food, clothes, etc. In this case, nutrition?
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Right. Given the fact that more than half of all fertilized eggs do not implant and are spontaneously expelled without the woman ever even knowing, this creates a logistical nightmare.
Pregnancy tests cannot detect "a fertilized egg"; both quantative blood and urine tests detect hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced in pregnancy), which is not present until after implantation.
I cannot imagine the logistics (or the violations of privacy and human rights) that would be involved in the State attempting to somehow regulate or even keep track of fertilization and implantation of women's eggs.
It's just preposterous, on the face of it.